Half of Enterprise PCs Still Stuck ing Windows XP SP2
Half of Enterprise PCs Still Stuck ing Windows XP SP2
Posted 06/02/2010 at 5:10am
| by Paul Lilly
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Nevermind that the third Service Pack for Windows XP came out two years ago, or that XP itself is about two generations old. According to security risk and compliance management provider Qualys, out of the hundreds of thousands of PCs the company monitors, half of them are still running Windows XP SP2.
"The normal thing for IT is not to muck around with something that works," said Wolfgang Kandek, chief technology officer for Qualys. "I would expect that come August, SP2 will be getting hard and harder to defend. I expect to see reliable exploits of unpatched vulnerabilities three or four months later."
Kandek's outlook takes into consideration that Microsoft plans to retire Windows XP SP2 on July 13, at which point users will need to upgrade to SP3 in order to continue receiving security updates.
Looking further ahead, Microsoft will retire Windows XP SP3 in April 2014.
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FunkySquirrel
June 08, 2010 at 10:48am
Those poor people. Stil Stuck Ing.
Whatever shall we do?
(Seriously - it wouldn't hurt to actually look at the page when you're done adding the article now and then.)
tehLazyNinja
June 02, 2010 at 5:51pm
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. It's bad for Microsoft's bottom line, but as an IT manager (hypothetically), I'd want nothing to do with a brand new operating system that requires more of my hardware. Most of the people who use internet at most companies use it internally to access their PDM, inventory system or send emails. You don't really need much more than straight DOS to do those things. The older you go, the more training is required but the same is true for newer systems. Most people have some level of familiarity with XP nowadays. There's not a compelling reason to change.
Add to that, most companies are looking at ways to curb internet usage to save bandwidth.
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